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Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc

From Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc
Date 2017-02-07 10:50 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 10:23:31AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
> > cpu offlining. I have to check the code but my impression was that WQ
> > code will ignore the cpu requested by the work item when the cpu is
> > going offline. If the offline happens while the worker function already
> > executes then it has to wait as we run with preemption disabled so we
> > should be safe here. Or am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Tejun suggested an alternative solution to avoiding get_online_cpus() in
> this thread:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20170123170329.GA7820@htj.duckdns.org>

I was hoping it would not really be necessary to sync against the cpu
offline callback if we know we don't really have to guarantee we run on
the correct CPU.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-02-06 20:20 +0100
  Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-06 23:10 +0100
    Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 09:50 +0100
      Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 10:30 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 10:50 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 11:00 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 11:50 +0100
          Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 12:20 +0100
      Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 10:50 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 11:00 +0100
          Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 11:10 +0100
          Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 11:30 +0100
            Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 11:40 +0100
              Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 12:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 12:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 13:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 13:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 13:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 13:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 13:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 15:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 15:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 15:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 16:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 17:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 17:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-07 18:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-07 23:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-08 08:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 13:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-08 13:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-08 15:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-08 18:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 15:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-08 16:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-08 17:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 19:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 04:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 12:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 15:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 16:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 16:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 17:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 18:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 18:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-09 20:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-10 19:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-08 18:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-08 16:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 18:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 21:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 14:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 14:50 +0100
    Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2017-02-07 12:30 +0100
  Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 09:50 +0100
  Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-07 23:40 +0100

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